Do you have any article, post, or page ranked top 3 for a keyword?

[Vash]

I'd like to see the result from having a page ranked top 3 on Google for a certain keyword.

According to what I read, the top 3 results on Google search get almost 50% of all clicks. Most people will only click on the top search results before change a search term.

Sadly, I do not have any top 3.


Do you have an article, or a post, or any page on your own web site ranked top 3 on Google with a certain keyword?
How many page views do you get from that page of yours every day or every month? What is the total search for that keyword per month (you can use Adword keyword search to find out).

[Marvelz]

I'd like to see the result from having a page ranked top 3 on Google for a certain keyword.

According to what I read, the top 3 results on Google search get almost 50% of all clicks. Most people will only click on the top search results before change a search term.

Sadly, I do not have any top 3.


Do you have an article, or a post, or any page on your own web site ranked top 3 on Google with a certain keyword?
How many page views do you get from that page of yours every day or every month? What is the total search for that keyword per month (you can use Adword keyword search to find out).

I write articles on someone else's site and I receive cash depending on article views. Most of my articles are page 1 on google, some on page 2. My best is an article about windows 8. I'm just below the official microsoft.com sites in about 5th spot. That article had a good day yesterday and received over 1,000. It has seen similar views for the past few weeks. Others receive 300, 200, etc, every day. Not bad seeing as how I haven't been writing for very long.

My keywords for windows 8 receive over 250,000 searches per month(according to google keyword tool), so based on my daily views and position, I receive about 25 - 30,000 of those searches per month.

[novasparker]

I have also been in this situation. All of the stuff I have written for me is new, so there aren't really any high search engine rankings there, but I have had several articles that have done really well that were ranked within the top three on Google. I don't remember what they were now since I wasn't receiving residual payments for them, but I have several articles right now that are netting 33k page views a month...for consumer electronics...this is a highly competitive target.

[Paige_S]

Hi,

I do all the SEO for the company I work for and we are in top for 3 for most of our product/keywords in some cases number one. I found though that some of our keywords have 18,000 local searches, but only results in around 1000 clicks on our site a month even being number one! For some of our other rankings the local searches are a lot less in the 6000 mark and we receive more visits to these pages. So it seems to me it that sometimes it doesn't matter if you are ranked first. Doe's anybody else find this?

[Vash]

I write articles on someone else's site and I receive cash depending on article views. Most of my articles are page 1 on google, some on page 2. My best is an article about windows 8. I'm just below the official microsoft.com sites in about 5th spot. That article had a good day yesterday and received over 1,000. It has seen similar views for the past few weeks. Others receive 300, 200, etc, every day. Not bad seeing as how I haven't been writing for very long.

My keywords for windows 8 receive over 250,000 searches per month(according to google keyword tool), so based on my daily views and position, I receive about 25 - 30,000 of those searches per month.

The 5th spot get over 1,000 clicks in one day? That's awesome! I wish one of my articles can get that many visitors. Just one article would be fine for now...
My best article got only 700 total views in the first 3 weeks of July... that's about 20 clicks a day. And it's on the second page for most of its keywords.

Hi,

I do all the SEO for the company I work for and we are in top for 3 for most of our product/keywords in some cases number one. I found though that some of our keywords have 18,000 local searches, but only results in around 1000 clicks on our site a month even being number one! For some of our other rankings the local searches are a lot less in the 6000 mark and we receive more visits to these pages. So it seems to me it that sometimes it doesn't matter if you are ranked first. Doe's anybody else find this?

1000 clicks out of 18,000 searches for rank #1? That seems to be quite low. I thought number 1 alone takes over 30% of all search traffic.

[Marvelz]

The 5th spot get over 1,000 clicks in one day? That's awesome! I wish one of my articles can get that many visitors. Just one article would be fine for now...
My best article got only 700 total views in the first 3 weeks of July... that's about 20 clicks a day. And it's on the second page for most of its keywords.

I was writing articles that only had maybe 3-5k searches a month and was only seeing maybe 10-20 views a day, so I started aiming higher. 250k 300k searches a month with any keywords that had low to medium competition and going for them. It's worth the effort even if you hit bottom of page one you'll see mor traffic from those as opposed to writing an article that's at no1 and only getting 3-5k searches a month.

[Vash]

I was writing articles that only had maybe 3-5k searches a month and was only seeing maybe 10-20 views a day, so I started aiming higher. 250k 300k searches a month with any keywords that had low to medium competition and going for them. It's worth the effort even if you hit bottom of page one you'll see mor traffic from those as opposed to writing an article that's at no1 and only getting 3-5k searches a month.

But usually the higher monthly search, the more competitors you have for that keyword. It is harder to rank high in search results.
The same article I was talking about ranked on page 2 for most of its similar keyword phase that have few thousand searches, but for the highest searched key phase I found my article to be on page 9~10+ due to 50 times more results showing up on search.

[Marvelz]

But usually the higher monthly search, the more competitors you have for that keyword. It is harder to rank high in search results.
The same article I was talking about ranked on page 2 for most of its similar keyword phase that have few thousand searches, but for the highest searched key phase I found my article to be on page 9~10+ due to 50 times more results showing up on search.

Not necessarily. The only competition you have is the top ten results on page one. There are still plenty of keywords out there with very high search results and low to medium comp. To help your high competition keyword, add more synonyms that relate to that key phrase, it'll strengthen that main key phrase. Also(if you haven't already)dig about for untapped long-tail keywords associated with it and add those too.

[Vash]

Not necessarily. The only competition you have is the top ten results on page one. There are still plenty of keywords out there with very high search results and low to medium comp. To help your high competition keyword, add more synonyms that relate to that key phrase, it'll strengthen that main key phrase. Also(if you haven't already)dig about for untapped long-tail keywords associated with it and add those too.

How do you determine "low" competition? Using Google keyword tool?
Can it be trusted? I found the keyword "dog" is low in competition but there are hundreds millions search results. You know how many dogs are out there lol...I wouldn't expect to be ranked high with that word.


Yes, I have multiple keywords in my article. But I can only use one or two in the title. Even for subtitles, I can't put everything into it. Now for my "flag article", only one keyword is on the first page rank #7 right now (that's new...it just went up), all the other keywords (in fact even my primary keyword) is only on the second page. There are other keywords for the same article only ranked on page 9~10. I have done a lot for the on-page SEO. And I have put some backlinks to the top ranked related pages. It is hard to find high ranked related pages for backlinks. What else can I do to rank high? I really want to see the power of being ranked in top 3!

[Marvelz]

How do you determine "low" competition? Using Google keyword tool?
Can it be trusted? I found the keyword "dog" is low in competition but there are hundreds millions search results. You know how many dogs are out there lol...I wouldn't expect to be ranked high with that word.


Yes, I have multiple keywords in my article. But I can only use one or two in the title. Even for subtitles, I can't put everything into it. Now for my "flag article", only one keyword is on the first page rank #7 right now (that's new...it just went up), all the other keywords (in fact even my primary keyword) is only on the second page. There are other keywords for the same article only ranked on page 9~10. I have done a lot for the on-page SEO. And I have put some backlinks to the top ranked related pages. It is hard to find high ranked related pages for backlinks. What else can I do to rank high? I really want to see the power of being ranked in top 3!

Google keyword tool can be trusted to a certain extent, but it does have its problems. If I type in a keyword and it has 0 competition, sometimes, if I refresh the page it will change to 0.80 or whatever so you shouldn't rely on your first result for any keyword. I make sure I check the keyword a few times before deciding on it. Google keyword tool isn't going to tell you how difficult it's going to be to outrank the top ten results, you obviously have to do that by other means.

1) Check the top ten page ranks
2) Do they have Back links to page
3) Do they have Back links to page domain
4) Is the Keyword in domain address
5) Is the Keyword in title
6) keyword in description
7) keyword in H1 tag

Finding these out will tell you how strong those top ten are and whether or not you will be able to compete with them. If a few of the top ten are missing any or some of those, you could outrank them so long as your site contains all of the above. Sometimes it doesn't matter if the top ten results have thousands of backlinks because they could be of very poor quality built by a bot, and ten GOOD backlinks built manually by you to your site might out rank theirs.

Find high pr dofollow .gov and .edu sites you can create a profile on and add your site to your profile page. Even better is finding a .gov site that allows you to create your own blogs on. Those are very hard to find but they do exist - much stronger than Wordpress or Ezine, etc, for building backlinks.

Those sites you have already built backlinks on - find out who they are powered by. You'll be able to find (with your keyword) similar sites to build backlinks on, as long as they are dofollow, of course.

If the keyword is "dog" - search for dog forums powered by ***** or dog sites powered by ******

If you know all of this then sorry for wasting your time but I hope there's at least one thing you didn't know and it helps you out.